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Posted on 03/22/2005 6:31:40 PM PST by STARWISE
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Tonight it is, March 22, 2005, over five days since Theresa Marie Schiavo commenced her ordeal of purposeful and legally sanctioned dehydration and starvation. We await a decision from the three judge panel from Eleventh Judicial Circuit as to her fate, as her family struggles with seeing Terri's physical health deteriorate.
It looks like we're down to Florida then, unless with all of the publicity the Supreme Court changes it's mind.
Someone posted that days ago that 3 FL senators were needed to pass SB 2128 which the FL house already passed, I think.
Today, Terri's mom said only 1 vote was need as two were swayed to change their vote.
Florida senators that voted no need to be FReeped.
Arianna Grumbine, 19, of Whittier, Calif., left, who is in the ninth day of fasting, prays with other protestors, including the Rev. Patrick Mohoney, right, outside the Woodside Hospice, where Terri Schiavo is a patient, Tuesday morning March 22, 2005 in Pinellas Park, Fla. A federal judge refused early this morning to have Terri's feeding tube reinstalled.
The blame belongs to Schiavo/Felos/Greer and their 'culture of death'.
Frist and DeLay earnestly tried what they could get passed in time to do any good at all.
It all depends on the rest of the justices at the 11th, we know we have one on our side...i cannot believe they would not question the hearsay testimony...that is huge, that is the whole thing
I won't read the other threads. Don't want to see their happy death dances.
>>this guy can flit here
I dont understand #548, did you mis-address it to me?
That's it too, it is like they are happy
Big hugs to you and everyone there at the hospice! We appreciate you and wish we could be there with you.
What was the cop going to do, send you to the principal if you talked? I bet his name is Principal Greer. Are you sure you didn't mistakenly end up in another country on your way to Florida?
Ok...I'm done crying. Now I'm mad.
What an amazing story, Wampus. I read it twice.
I'm sure the angels are attending to Terri right now. I hope one day she'll be able to tell a story like your aunt and uncle's.
Terri is bathed in an unbelievable amount of prayer!
And btw, thank you so much for sharing it.
Since last evening THREE HOSPICE NURSES HAVE BEEN FIRED BY HOSPICE WOODSIDE. They were sympathetic to Terri and the Hospice allegedly wanted these nurses to sign a paper swearing allegiance to Hospice and that they were against President Bush. They refused and were terminated. All three have gone straight to doing radio interviews. I referred them to a good EEOC attorney who knows all about hospice.
Well, since I can't sleep, I'm going to go blow off some steam by playing a video game where I can shoot some zombies and hopefully calm down enough to get some rest.
See you all tomorrow and KEEP PRAYING!!!
Night,
R
They are. They think this is Congress telling people what to do. They have no clue it's civil rights and human rights violations. They don't get it.
Since last evening THREE HOSPICE NURSES HAVE BEEN FIRED BY HOSPICE WOODSIDE. They were sympathetic to Terri and the Hospice allegedly wanted these nurses to sign a paper swearing allegiance to Hospice and that they were against President Bush. They refused and were terminated. All three have gone straight to doing radio interviews. I referred them to a good EEOC attorney who knows all about hospice.
Court discounted testimony that implies Terry Schiavo would not want to die even in her situation
There appears to be evidence that the court made a mistake when it discounted testimony that contradicted Terry Schiavo's husband testimony about her views of a person in vegetative state. If correct, this completely eliminates any claim by her husband to have the right to make decisions for her.
The Schindlers contend that Greer lacked the clear and convincing evidence needed when he issued the Feb. 11, 2000, death order and made a “clear mistake: when he discounted testimony by one of Terri Schiavo’s best friends, Diane Christine Meyer.
“WHERE THERE’S LIFE, THERE’S HOPE”
Meyer testified at trial that in 1982 when Terri Schiavo was 19, the recent high school graduates had just seen a television movie about Karen Ann Quinlan who had been in a coma since collapsing six years earlier and was the subject of a contentious court battle over her parents’ decision to take her off a respirator. Meyer said that Terri uncharacteristically lost her temper when Meyer told a joke about Karen Quinlan. Meyer said that Terri didn’t find the joke funny and “did not approve of what was going on in the Quinlan case”, referring to the legal battle to remove the woman from life support. “I remember one of the things she said is, ‘How did they know she would want this? How would they know she wouldn’t want to go on?” Meyer testified.
Meyer recalls Terri sauing, “Where there’s life, there’s hope”.
Gibbs says Meyer’s conversation with Terri occurred in 1982 in connection with the action in the Quinlan case in 1976 and Quinlan’s death a decade later in 1985.
“In the summer of 1982,when the conversation occurred, she would have been 19, not 11 or 12 as the court assumed her to be”, Gibbs said. “In its Feb. 11, 2000, order, the court recounted at great length Ms. Meyer’s testimony, finding her “believable at the [outset] but then questioning her credibility when recounting her conversation with Terri when she recalled it as being during the summer of 1982 after watching a television movie about the Quinlan case”.
“The Court noted two quotes from the discussion between Meyer and Terri which raised serious questions about the time frames. Quinlan did not die in the mid-70s when the court case ended as the court presumed. Instead, after taken off the respirator in 1976 and given assisted feeding, Quinlan lived another nine years in a New Jersey nursing home and died June 11, 1985 at age 31”
Greer said in his decision and order that Meyer had used the present tense in her statements which he said raised serious questions about when they occurred. “The court is mystified as to how these present tense verbs would have been used some six years after the death of Karen Ann Quinlan”, he wrote. Quinlan had lived three years after Terri Schiavo had reportedly made her comments to Meyer in 1982.
“It was not Meyer who was mistaken, but the court”, Gibbs said. Greer ruled that Michael’s inadmissible self-serving hearsay and that of his family constituted clear and convincing evidence that she would want the feeding tube removed and starved to death.
He said Greer discounted Meyer’s testimony because of its own mistaken conclusion that Karen Ann Quinlan was already dead in 1982. The fact that she died in 1985 was never presented to the court.
The US Supreme Court will agree with the lower courts. They want Terri dead. Damn judicial tyrants.
The appeals court DENIED the request to re-insert Terri's feeding tube. Damn them all.
A well-reasoned dissent ups the chances for reversal - either en banc or by the US Supremes.
Angels watching over thee.......
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